Live 1-2 Turn/River Bluff

Hello all. Been a while since I have played poker. Had a hand for you guys if you wouldn't mind giving this a read On to the hand. I am around $150 and villain has me covered

UTG+1 opens to $8. I call with KTs directly after him. UTG+1 appears to be a fairly competent former online player. 3 more callers, so there are 5 going into the hand.

Flop comes Q-T-9 rainbow. Villain leads out for 25 and I call. He has shown a proclivity to cbet a high percentage when he opens preflop. However, given there is 5 people in the hand, I am a little scared of his range but am willing to call one street. Everyone else folds.

Turn brings an 8. Board is Q-T-9-8 rainbow. Villain bets out 20. This bet, to me at least, says "I have a hand, but I do not have a jack and am unhappy with that card." Given my hand is drawing very thin vs his possible range, I opt to raise to 50. He thinks for a little while, and decides to call.

River brings a 6, not affecting much but bringing another possible random straight. He checks to me, and I choose to shove around 55.

In my opinion, I like my line, but I really dislike my bet sizing. However, I am unsure if I could have made it better given my 75bb stack. It would have been much easier if I had just been at 100bb.I would not have tried to pull this bluff on a normal 1/2 player, but given I noticed he is able to somewhat read hands and appeared competent, I felt my range was so strong given the line, I could get him to fold just about anything. It would have been much easier if I had just been at 100bb. What do you guys think?

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didn't read anything besides the title.

"live" and "bluff" dont make any sense

i didn't like the part where u called the flop with 5 ppl in the hand directly after the UTG or the part where you raised the turn with your read "he cbets a high percentage when he opens preflop" or the part where you shove 55 into 240 on the river

On April 07 2013 12:24 mnj wrote: i didn't like the part where u called the flop with 5 ppl in the hand directly after the UTG or the part where you raised the turn with your read "he cbets a high percentage when he opens preflop" or the part where you shove 55 into 240 on the river

TBH, at the time I thought I had more to shove on the river : /

If the guy is a competent online player, his c-bet on a Q-9-8 board with 5 players is really strong and therefore you should not be calling with K10 and not be bluffing him off his really strong range,

he probably has QQ, 99, AA-KK,

I think you just got really lucky that you were able to find a card to bluff him off maybe AQ or something. If the turn came a 2, and he ended up betting $20, I am quite certain you'd be calling instead of bluffing and thus drawing dead against sets/straights.

buy in for 100bb mini
fold preflop
fold flop
fold turn
avoid bluff live

I stopped at called with K10.

If you want to improve your game, don't call opens in early position with K10, unless the effectie stack is 400+ and you have information on your opponent (s).

Also, if you want to make your life easier, i suggest buying in for 50bb until you're winning 85% of your sessions for a good sample.

On April 11 2013 15:27 GameOverNoob wrote: Also, if you want to make your life easier, i suggest buying in for 50bb until you're winning 85% of your sessions for a good sample.

pretty good advice actually

On April 11 2013 15:27 GameOverNoob wrote: Also, if you want to make your life easier, i suggest buying in for 50bb until you're winning 85% of your sessions for a good sample.

I bought in for 100bb, just lost a little bit of it a hand or 2 earlier. You can't really auto refill in live

All of the advice in here is what I was expecting. I knew when I called preflop it was not good vs his range, I knew my call on the flop vs his bet into 5 players indicated my hand was most likely bad, but for some reason I have been having trouble reincorporating the information I know while the hand is actually going on. As for the bluff, I still like my thinking behind the action, but feel with the situation of such a small stack, I should have definitely avoided it. Probably just need to slow down until I get comfortable again.

i think almost regardless of player type starting to run massive bluffs just because someone bet small is not good... almost everyone who has some experience playing poker knows that betting very small sometimes induces bluffraises and ppl who don't have much experience will just call anyway

you have almost no info about this guy, I think he could easily just have a J and play ti that way. If he has someone like a set he may end up calling river because he remembers he bet small earlier

you can auto refill live D: just buy an extra hundred and keep it in your pocket

i don't mind the play in certain situations and are deeper but i don't like this at all